THE VOICE
A NEGRO WEEKLY
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the cultural, social and spiritual
life of a great people”
Rev. Melvin L. Shakespeare
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Reporter
Rev. Trago T. McWilliams, Sr.
Special Writer
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Special Writer
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Prayer for Understanding
By Vincent Edwards
The late Major Moton, presi
dent of Tuskegee, never forgot a
prayer that he once heard an old
Negro make. When the famous
educator was asked to speak to
Christian Student conventions, he
often repeated it. In these days
when both white and black peo
ple are all too ready to let rumors
and “icidents” build up a wall of
prejuidce, perhaps its publication
may help to restore reason and
tolerance among Christians. Here
is what the humble Negro prayed:
“O God of all races, will you
please, Sir, come in and take
charge of the minds of all these
white people and fix them so that
they will know and understand
that all of us colored folks are not
lazy, dirty, dishonest and of no
account. Help them, Lord, to see
that most of us are praying,
working, and stl-iving to get some
land, houses, and some education
for ourselves and our children,
and get true religion, and that
’most every Negro in Northamp
ton County is doing his level best
to make friends and to get along
with the white folks. Help these
white folks, O Lord, to under
stand this very thing. Lord, while
you are taking charge of the
minds of the white people, don’t
pass by the colored folks, for they
need you as much as the white
folks. Open the Negro’s blind
eyes that he may see that all
white folks are not prejudiced
against the colored folks; that
there are hard-working, just and
God-fearing white folks in this
Community who are trying the
very best they know how, with
circumstances oftentimes against
them ,to be fair in their dealings
with the colored folks, and to
help them to be respectable men
and women. Help us, O Lord,
both black and white, to under
stand each other better every
day. Amen.”
Guest Column
wmmm.
Delight
Et^Jr Killinger
graduate
Hastings
College
Recreation
Recreation, for most of us, is a
change of work. We easily tire of
doing the same thing, and some
form of diversion is necessary for
our well-being.
The main divisions of recrea
tion could probably be summed
up under the broad terms of phy
sical, mental, and spiritual diver
sion. Recreation may also be in
terpreted to mean recreation. We
all know that if one’s arm is not
used, it loses its strength; just so
our body requires activity in all
phases to keep it properly condi
tioned.
Physical recreation brings also
a mental and spiritual uplift. It is
difficult to separate each from the
other. For one who is in an of
fice or schoolroom all day long,
a brisk walk in which he can
drink in the fresh air and beauty
of nature not only benefits him
physically, but also mentally and
spiritually. One who is obliged
to st^nd all day will find a more
quiet type of activity refreshing.
As the poet says:
A Recipe for a Day
“Take a dash of water cold
And a little leaven of prayer,
A little bit of sunshine gold
Dissolved in the morning air.
Add to your meal some merriment
And a thought for kith and kin;
And then, as a prime ingredient,
A lot of work thrown in.
But spice it all with the essence
of love •
And a little whif of play.
Let a wise old book and a glance
above
Complete a well spent day!”
-o
Comments To The Editor
Pasadena 3, Calif.
October 23, 1946
To The Voice:
Dear Publisher:
Congratulations to the Voice.
And many thanks to the friend
who mailed me my first copy.
You don’t know how much I
enjoyed reading a little paper
from my own home town. May
God bless you with a long and
successful career.
Enclosed please find check for
$2.00 for a years subscription.
Mary Burden Davis
-o
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Norfolk Woman Attends
World Federation Meet
MOSCOW—(ANP)—Among the
delegates in attendance and tak
ing active part in meetings of the
executive committee of the World
Federation of Democratic women
here recently was Mrs. Vivian
Mason, executive committee
member of the Federation from
Norfolk, Va. During her stay
here, Mrs. Mason was the guest
of the Imperial Ethiopian lega
tion at a dinner, and also had a
talk with Mrs. Palulinu Molotov,
wife of Soviet Foreign Minister
Vyacheslaw Molotov.
At the legation dinner, Mrs.
Mason told the staff that Ameri
can Negroes had a great interest
in Ethiopia, the country’s devel
opment and progress. She ex
pressed a regret, however, that
Abyssinian women, “who suffer
ed so severly at the hands of
Italian fascist invasion” were not
represented at the sessions of the
federation meet, but stated she
hoped closer contact would be
established in the near future be
tween Abyssinian women and
American Negro women, togeth
er with all other progressive de
mocratic women’s organizations.
Members of the legation staff
concurred in this view and ad
vanced the desire for further
rapproachment between the col
ored peoples of both nations, de
claring that Abyssinians look up
on American Negroes as their
blood brothers.
Before leaving Moscow, Mrs.
Mason expressed her profound
thanks and admiration to Russian
people, particularly Russian wo
men for their sinceie hospitality
and courtesy to her and her ad
miration for “their heroic efforts
in healing the deep wounds left
by German invasion.”
Mrs. Mason left Moscow Octo
ber 18, enroute by plane to Paris.
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